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Medal box
Box for Hunger Strike medal awarded to Kate Williams Evans by the Women's Social and Political Union, 4 March 1912. Wooden box with black leather covering. Inside the lid, Kate's name and an explanation of the award are printed in gold lettering on a cream coloured fabric cushion. The base of the box, on which the medal rests, has a green fabric surface
Only 100 Hunger Strike medals are known to exist – this is one of only three awarded to a Welsh Suffragette that are believed to survive
Kate Williams Evans, born in Montgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to two months hard labour for malicious damage, having smashed a window in a government building. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison, and on 16 April 1912 she was one of 92 suffragettes who went on hunger strike after the withholding by the Home Secretary of certain priveleges regarding exercise, conversation, clothing, and reading and writing materials